The Mother series, known in the West as Earthbound, are some of the best games to ever grace a Game Boy. They're so good, in fact, that Nintendo of America wants nothing to do with them.

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Despite years of asking, demanding and then begging for the third game in the series - never released outside of Japan - to be localised for a Western audience, Nintendo of America has not done so.

Sensing that the publisher lacks the will (or the legal clout) to continue the series for American and European consumers, a group of fans have got together and decided to make their own Mother game. And they're calling it Mother 4.

A rumour popped up today on Starmen.net claiming that Earthbound would never, ever be released on…
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It of course has nothing to do with Nintendo, nor the series' creator Shigesato Itoi. Its developers are just fans, making a pro-active decision that if anybody was going to make a new Mother game that would be playable in English, it may as well be them.

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There's no release date or even a guarantee it'll ever be finished (Nintendo having one of the most trigger-happy legal teams in the industry), but if it does make it to a playable state, it'll surely be as a downloadable PC game.